#homonationalism

[sayruq]

[hummussexual]

Over the decades, numerous investigations have exposed how Israeli intelligence targets LGBTQ+ people. In 2013, Vice published an investigation detailing how the Palestinian Authority’s preventative security forces, under the direction of the IDF, had isolated gay Palestinians from their communities, kept files on them, and exploited them for intelligence. In 2015, news reports revealed that a surveillance technology company run by a former Unit 8200 official had helped provide Uganda with malware allegedly used against LGBTQ+ activists.

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[metamatar]

In 2005, the tellingly named studio After Stone wall Productions released a film titled Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World. Featuring interviews with various LGBT activists from different countries outside the West, spliced up and lumped together haphazardly, the film delivers the following overarching messages: that it is not safe to be queer in the "developing world," that what queer spaces do exist in the "developing world" are to be found in certain metropolises: Cairo, Kuala Lumpur, Calcutta, Rio de Janeiro—and that these sites trace their genealogy to the Stonewall riots. Furthermore, according to the film, queerness/gayness and sometimes transness (when it is acknowledged) were invented in the West. Epistemic breaking points such as the Stone wall riots and canonized locales such as San Francisco and Greenwich Village are the originating points of this innovation against the backdrop of a timeless, pervasive heterosexism. This cosmopolitan gayness/queerness then "spreads" from the metropole to the periphery, forming a web from city to city This coincides with Jack Halberstam's (excruciatingly white) analysis in his book In a Queer Time and Place: the idea of "metronorma tivity" that "the rural is made to function as a closet for urban sexualities in most accounts of rural queer migration" and that "the metronormative narrative maps a story of migration onto the coming-out narrative" (2005, 36-37). We can extend Halberstam's analysis further and see the ways that the closet/rural/(post)colony as well as out/urban/metropole get col lapsed onto each other—the queer is always pulled closer to the heart of capital.

The overarching savior narrative occurs towards the end of the film, when each interviewee, in clips spliced together, tells his or her story of emigrating to the West. After a particularly heart-wrenching story of Ashraf Zanati's departure from Egypt, the narrator comments that "Ashraf Zanati left Egypt. Ashraf had become part of a planetary minority." Although the film purports to care about the status of queers in the "developing world," it actually forms a wounded attachment that fetishizes displacement and bifurcates the queer from his or her society. This narration of non-Western countries as inherently unsafe for queer subjects produces the very displacement it describes, in a manner similar to the ways nine teenthcentury colonial archaeology laid the foundations for Zionism and the dispossession of Arab Jews. Writing about the European "discovery" and destruction of the Cairo Geniza—a building that had housed pieces of paper documenting centuries of jewish Egyptian history—Shohat (2006) shows us that the discursive/ archival dislocation of Egyptian Jews by the forces of European/Ashkenazi colonialism anticipated the later dislocation of Egyptian Jews. This dislocation would form part of the backbone of Zionist historiography's production of a "morbidly selective 'tracing the dots' from pogrom to pogrom." The fetishization of queer displacement, as projected by Dangerous Living, performs a similar historical flip to the one Shohat documents: "If at the time of the 'Geniza discovery' Egyptian Jews were still seen as part of the colonized Arab world, with the partition of Palestine, Arab-Jews, in a historical shift, suddenly became simply 'Jews'" (Shohat 2006, 205). Through various colonial practices, there was a discursive bifurcation between the "Arab" and the "Jew"; in the case of case of Dangerous Living there is a similar bifurcation between the "Egyptian" and the "Queer."

Papantonopoulou, Saffo. “‘Even a Freak Like You Would Be Safe in Tel Aviv’: Transgender Subjects, Wounded Attachments, and the Zionist Economy of Gratitude.” Women’s Studies Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 1/2, 2014, pp. 278–93. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24364930. Accessed 11 Nov. 2024.

[queen-mabs-revenge]

[timetravellingkitty]

zionist indians going all "they kill gay people in palestine" is so fucking funny you know people here go ballistic if you marry someone of a different CASTE right

[alurite-l]

Oh I'm gonna say something controversial and "problematic" real quick. White queers think being gay and/or trans is the ultimate form of oppression. And just like any other white person they must make themselves out to be the ultimate victim. "They would kill me in Palastine." "They would hatecrime me immediately in the middle east." "I could get beheaded by those people, that's why I don't support them." Are all things I've heard from white gays, mind you these people are living in AMERICA.

The same country who made it their mission to slander and eradicate the LGBTQ community, just a few months ago they were literally calling us groomers and p*dophiles and people were falling for that propaganda just like how yall are currently falling for the propaganda that all Palestinians are "terrorists" and are "bloodthirsty". And just how y'all are falling for that bullshit pinkwashing by israel.

[dieletztepanzerhexe]

[vergess]

hello do you happen to have an explanation/definition of what pinkwashing is? don't trust googlie with a term so new and it does not line up with my understanding of the terms it's made up of (-washing = covering or changing the original or true depiction, pink- = I only know this term in politics from pink-collar and I am 99% certain it does not mean the same thing here)

Oh, yeah, you're absolutely correct about it not being a pink-collar thing.

For my followers, pink-collar refers to paid work outside the home that is traditionally held by women. The "pink" refers to women, femininity, etc. Just girly things, if you will.

In pink-washing, however, the pink refers to pink triangles, a prominent symbol of queer survival after pink triangles were used to mark sexual deviants (that is, gay men and trans women).

Pink-washing is the use of "we have queer rights, unlike those barbaric savages" to justify state violence.

Right now, the term is mostly coming up in discussions of Israel. In that specific context, it refers to the fact that Israel is far and away the most progressive and well-protected place for queer people of all sorts in the middle east. Which the Israeli government often likes to point to as proof that their brutal ethnic cleansing is a "necessary force" to protect queer lives from Islamist extremism.

It's a sort of, "look, I know what I'm doing is bad, but what they're doing is way worse: look at how badly they treat their queers. Obviously I must be violent to help civilize the animals, for the sake of their queers," often while actively killing queer civilians for being for the wrong race.

Unfortunately, pink-washing is itself strong evidence that a state devalues her queer citizens, thinking of them not as vulnerable people to be protected (as the state will insist is the case), but rather as tokens to be trotted out as proof of the state's "goodness." And should any queer person defy the role of "good little token," they are inevitably and severely punished. As they say (they being in this case an Israeli sociologist whose name escapes me entirely), "A trans woman in uniform will be given medical care, but a trans woman who refuses military service will go to a men's prison."

Pink-washing is also extremely, EXTREMELY common in the U.S. though this doesn't get as much air time lately as Israeli pink-washing. But, the U.S. very regularly uses pink-washing around gay (not so much trans) rights to justify both imperial and domestic violence. Even at the per-state level, it is extremely common for people in "progressive" states to say absurd shit like, "well we treat our gays with respect, unlike Alabama!" to thought-stop themselves from noticing how miserable their lives are as a direct consequence of state action (or even state inaction to stop violence, as is often the case with capitalism and policing problems).

There's also a significant problem in Canada with their pretty solid record on queer rights being used as a counter-argument to their mistreatment of indigenous peoples. This too is pink-washing.

Pink-washing also devalues to lives and specifically the queerness of the people being targeted for violence. You know. By killing them and stuff. But also by denying that they deserve the very right to life and safety that is supposedly the mission statement.

If the entire point of pink-washed violence really was queer liberation, they would suck at that because they keep killing all the queer people they don't fucking like.

[verilybitchie]

Wow Eurovision is so gay!

[gryficowa]

Get the fuck out of the blue MAGA tags about free Palestine, no one wants to see you there!

We're just sick of you, your bullshit about Trump, your praising Harris and your fascist fucking scare tactics (But what do we expect from people who support a fascist?)

Your Harris has a history of supporting Israel, do you seriously think she cares about Gaza or even Ukraine itself? No, she cares about winning, not human life, that's obvious from a fucking mile away

[describe-things]

Homonationalism will not save you. You cannot fucking threaten Queer people with being put in concentration camps unless we vote for your favorite genocidaire and call yourself an ally to anyone except white supremacy and genocide.

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Do not fucking vote for the man literally comitting genocide right now and then pretend you're doing it because you care about Queer people. You are literally just a white supremacist who only cares about yourself and other privileged white Americans.

If you vote for the man literally comitting genocide right fucking now, you are a fucking fascist pig, and no excuses will save you from this truth.

If you're willing to stand behind the US Govermnent's fascism when it's targeting people who aren't American, you are literally dooming any fucking hope of liberation for anyone. You cannot fucking support genocide and wash your hands of the consequences.

[jyndor]

considering palestine was super secular before israeli occupation, I don't need to hear from defenders of israel about how palestinians are so queerphobic. yes, settler-colonialism radicalized a lot of people. no where is safe for queer people tbh - including israel and the us. some places are more dangerous, but given the absolute war on trans people here in the us, I don't think we have any room to criticize ANYONE else.

queer liberation everywhere. and that includes queer palestinians. and so I will never accept bombing palestinians for queer rights.

stop using us as rainbow fucking human shields for your racist, orientalist garbage.

[hummussexual]

Homonationalism is "the instrumentalization of LGBTI rights as a tool of imperial domination." (source)

[rjalker]

The Vote Blue Fascists literally hate third party voters and non-voters more than they do Trump supporters because they know that the people voting third party and withholding their vote in protest are in fact the most vulnerable people in their communities, so it's easy to attack us, but the Trump supporters are the people with actual power and influence, so they won't even pretend to do anything about that. No, they'll just go online and tell the most vulnerable people in this country, including Palestinian Americans, that we should kill ourselves for not voting in explicit support of genocide.

[heavenlyachivement009]

I’m very sick of white lgbts saying they can’t support what’s happening in Palestine because they are all “homophobic” despite them living in countries like America where they have massive anti trans laws and try n paint all gay people as pedophiles and groomers. The double standard is crazy.

[minu-moni]

And yet another great video about how Zionists use Queer liberation as a tool to try to convince queer people that colonialism is good while being homophobic and racist themselves recommended to me today! Thanks YouTube!

Spending my pride month not supporting genocide ♥️